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Originally Posted by stevej37
The largest outages by far were in Michigan, where at one point more than 820,000 customers were without electricity, mostly in the state’s southeast corner. Some 3,000 power lines were knocked down after being coated with ice as much as three-quarters of an inch thick and crews were struggling to get the juice back by the end of Sunday, utilities said.
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Our 9yo kid - having only experienced northern New Mexico mountain winter (sun, snow and NO ICE!) got her mind blown when I talked about sledding on the (shiny) grass as a kid in SW Michigan now and then. Ice storms, when moderate at least, are such a pain in the rear for adults but so awesome for kids. No school. Everything's icy (see above sledding). And no school.
Now as an adult, and after 30y in CO and NM, I don't regret having not seen freezing rain in (hmmm...) over 30y.
This of course exceeded "moderate". I hope the electric's on soon for those peeps and not too many houses/cars got crunched...